In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide.
The problem, as the report found, was that the “efforts at fighting terrorism and stamping out the sources of extremism” seemed to stop once the terrorists were incarcerated. No real reason was given for that.
Counter-terrorism officials and prison administrators have long known that prison walls cannot prevent a terrorist from acting or influencing others.
Convicted terrorists make up .03 percent of the UK prison population roughly more than 220 inmates yet prison specialists are monitoring between 500-800 inmates for extremist views. Where did they come from? They certainly didn’t just hatch overnight.
Inmates who pose terror threat to remain in jail beyond normal release date, Justice Secretary announces
Offenders who may have been found guilty of non-terror offences would only be released if they no longer pose a danger to the public
9 March 2021 • 6:00am
Prisoners who pose a terror threat will have to remain in jail far beyond their normal release date under powers to be granted to the Justice Secretary in a sentencing crackdown announced on Tuesday.
Hundreds of inmates jailed for non-terror offences who may have been radicalised in prison and are feared to hold extremist sympathies could be refused the right to early automatic release
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The UK’s prison authorities must get better at identifying the lies of committed extremists to stop them carrying out terrorist attacks when they leave prison, a senior government adviser said on Monday.
Ian Acheson, who produced a report in 2016 on extremism in jails, said the prison service lacked the staff and skills to identify killers who falsely claim to have dropped their violent ideologies.
Mr Acheson said authorities had to get a grip on the threat of extremism behind bars after attacks in 2019 and 2020 by recently released prisoners.
He gave the case of Libyan Khairi Saadallah, 26, who murdered three men in a knife attack in Reading, 65 kilometres west of London, shortly after his release from prison in June 2020.
The family of a man killed by a terror attacker in a stabbing spree said they are looking forward to working alongside the Home Secretary at an inquest and hope for meaningful changes .
US citizen Joseph Ritchie-Bennett (39), history teacher James Furlong (36) and scientist Dr David Wails (49) who was a former researcher at Queen s University Belfast, were stabbed to death by 26-year-old failed Libyan asylum seeker Khairi Saadallah in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on June 20 last year.
Saadallah fought for the extremist Islamic Ansar al-Sharia group in Libya.
Three other people - Stephen Young (51), Patrick Edwards (29) and Nishit Nisudan (34) - were also injured before Saadallah threw away the eight-inch knife and ran off, pursued by an off-duty police officer.